Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:14:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change modes of a symbolic link? Message-ID: <20020621161129.C61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20020621104005.C21649-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua>
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alexander V Zubchenko wrote: > Greetings! > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > I would like to set a symbolic link to lrwxrwxrwx > > - the way /home is set. > > How do I do this? > > > > Of course I read > > # man chmod > > but I don't understand it :-( > Citate: > "Symbolic links do not have modes, so unless the -H or -L option is > set, chmod on a symbolic link always succeed and has no effect. The > -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified." As I told you I read this passage and didn't understand it. I tried all sorts of # chmod -R -H 777 ... ... and checked the rights with # ls -l but nothing changed. Could you please give me an example? Thanks, Uli. > > > > > *-----------------------------------* > > * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * > > * - Wuppertal - * > > * Germany * > > *-----------------------------------* > > > Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua > System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ > Hermes-comp, > Ukraine, > Zaporizhzhya, > Geroev Stalingrada 50 > phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 > > > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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